Sunday, November 3
Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
4:00 PM | Guest(s): Emmanuel Gras
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Four Daughters (2023)
Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania | Not rated, 107 minutes, DCP
With Hend Sabri, Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui
In Arabic and French with English subtitles
Curated by Emmanuel Gras
One of the most acclaimed documentaries in recent years, this documentary by two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (The Man Who Sold His Skin) uses an audacious formal conceit to tell the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters. Attempting to answer the question of how and why the Tunisian woman’s two eldest were radicalized, Ben Hania reveals a complex history. We watch as the family relives key events in their lives with help from professional actors standing in for the missing girls. Winner of the Best Documentary award at the Cannes Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature at the Gotham Awards, and Best Writing at the IDA Documentary Awards, Four Daughters is a compelling portrait of five women and a unique and ambitious work of nonfiction cinema that pushes against the conventional boundaries of the documentary form to explore the nature of memory, rebellion, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.
This is a free but ticketed event. Tickets will be available for pick-up at the Ticket Office one hour prior to the performance. To guarantee your seat, please pick up your tickets at least 15 minutes prior to the show. In the event of a sell-out, unclaimed tickets will be used to seat patrons waiting on standby. This series is sponsored by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures